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President says move is based on ‘very good relationship with Kim Jong-un’ but US military officials have said Ukraine war is boosting regime’s combat capabilities

Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un’s regime was learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war.

The drills under Ulchi Freedom Shield, one of two major annual exercises held by South Korea and the US, start on Monday and run until 27 August.

At least 2,325 people have been killed, according to government data, surpassing the death toll from 2018-20 outbreak

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in the country’s history with at least 2,325 people killed, according to government data, surpassing the toll from the 2018-20 outbreak.

Congo’s public health institute said on Sunday that confirmed cases had risen to 4,945, including 101 new cases detected in the previous 24 hours.

China has established the first scheduled transit through the northern sea route, but questions remain over the environmental and political risks

When Marco Rubio suggested that the world should look to new shipping lanes to bypass the logjammed strait of Hormuz, it’s unlikely he had the Arctic’s northern sea route in mind.

And yet in recent months the promise of this 5,500km channel – cleaved through frozen seas by nuclear-powered icebreakers and illuminated by a sun that never dips below the Arctic horizon – has grown.

Mir Hussain has been followed by TV cameras since he was a child, and managed to deliver love and laughter alongside his struggle. Now his previous Bafta-winning documentary gets an update

Mir Hussain remembers the first time he saw a video camera: “I looked at it and it looked straight back at me.” His relationship with this all-seeing eye has broadened and deepened in the years that followed. Since 2002, when Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi first started documenting his story, Mir has lived an extraordinary life: grinding poverty and impossibly hard work, eking out a living in the mountainous Bamiyan province and then in urban Afghanistan, but combined with a remarkable level of exposure to the world, via modern media.

Mir and his family first appeared on our screens in 2021, in the Bafta-winning film My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan. This updated reversioning of that film contains plenty of the same footage but also, in a telling update, hits very differently in the light of what happened that year. In April 2021, US president Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of American soldiers from Afghanistan. Essentially, the US (and their allies, including Britain) abandoned the country to the Taliban extremists. The knowledge of this incipient horror looms unavoidably large; the whole film now feels like foreshadowing.

Wie of wat staat er midden in het nieuws? Een actuele puzzel, die makkelijker is als je het nieuws een beetje volgt.

Een Precies Vier bestaat uit 16 woorden, begrippen of namen, die moeten worden verdeeld in precies vier groepen van vier. Er is telkens maar één oplossing mogelijk. Welke woorden vormen een connectie?

Je krijgt een paar cijfers cadeau, maar het grid van 9x9 moet foutloos ingevuld worden.

Een kruiswoordpuzzel, maar dan heel klein (en snel).

KINSHASA (ANP) - De ebola-uitbraak in Congo heeft inmiddels 2325 mensen het leven gekost. Daarmee is het de dodelijkste uitbraak van het virus ooit in het land, blijkt zondag uit cijfers van de Congolese overheid.

Het dodental is hoger dan tijdens de ebola-uitbraak van 2018 tot 2020. Het Congolese instituut voor volksgezondheid heeft inmiddels 4945 besmettingen bevestigd. In de laatste 24 uur kwamen daar 101 gevallen bij.

De Verenigde Naties waarschuwden vrijdag al dat de uitbraak de snelst groeiende ooit is. Volgens VN-noodhulpcoördinator Tom Fletcher sterft momenteel iedere dertig minuten iemand aan het virus. Hij riep de internationale gemeenschap op de bestrijding van ebola snel op te schalen.

De huidige uitbraak werd op 15 mei vastgesteld. Ebola verspreidt zich door contact met lichaamsvloeistoffen en kan onder meer ernstige bloedingen veroorzaken.